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Old Fri Dec 13, 2019, 05:20pm
jmwking jmwking is offline
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Originally Posted by ilyazhito View Post
Statistical software cannot distinguish between 0 and 00. Surprisingly enough, scoreboards can distinguish between someone wearing 0 and 00.

In that regard, I would allow numbers 6 and greater, as long as there is a systematic way of signaling them (either turning the hand sideways, like lacrosse, or showing the tens digit, followed by the ones digit, each with both hands if necessary, like FIBA).
Blame bad programmers who think a number on a jersey should be treated as a number instead of a character - 'cause, well, Magic and Jordan together are equal to Mutombo...
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